Comments on: An open reply to Zeph Fish on her open letter to the estranged branches of her radical queer family https://accozzaglia.ca/cisnormativity/open-letter/an-open-reply-to-zeph/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 12:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: elenorli https://accozzaglia.ca/cisnormativity/open-letter/an-open-reply-to-zeph/#comment-3877 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:26:33 +0000 https://cisnormativity.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-3877 All very true. In the plain vernacular, us straight, non-white, poor, and transgender women have better and heavier loads to lift. Why would I pay cash money, 9/10 of my monthly paycheck, to go somewhere they hate me? I’d be happy to simply encourage a boy(girl)cott of MichFest, let it die in peace, were it not the nibbling doubt that its bigoted policy still carries weight in continuing cissexist abuses of transgender women by radfem second wavers. Never mind lesbian cultural space… Tg/TS women know that when it comes to women’s counselling, abuse shelters, homeless shelters, medical and other services that these spaces are far from safe for us.

(I sought post-srs care from my college women’s clinic, where the lesbian feminist nurse practitioner degraded and insulted me as she penetrated my naked body with a speculum. She didn’t dare deny care, but made sure I knew my place, violated my trust, turning an important and sensitive time into a painful memory.)

So, what really matters to those of us who wouldn’t darken the MichFest gate if they paid us is: What is the exact cost to us by the continuing cissexism supported by the MichFest bigots? Has anyone ever actually analyzed this, ethnographically, sociologically or otherwise? How exactly does the MichFest
policy contribute to and reinforce a wider systemic oppression of transgender women by radfems in the women’s health and other establishments?

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